Nathan F Sayre
Biographic Data
| ID | 128599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan F Sayre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan F |
| FAMILY NAME | Sayre |
| SIGNATURE | SAYRE N F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9243-2219 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 313 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Corn and the range: Rethinking Ranching, Agriculture and the Feedlot
Debates about modern beef production suffer from a major historical blind spot. For over a century, the feedlot relied on a closed nutrient loop to sustain soil fertility in the United States Corn Belt. Driven by industrial capitalist urbanization, a cattle-grain-beef complex shaped land use, tenure systems, management practices and environmental politics on the expanding frontier, sacrificing the tall-grass prairies and fracturing agrarian resis…
Sustaining rangelands in the 21st century
The major threats to sustaining rangelands in the 21st century are climate and land-use change, both of which originate outside of rangelands themselves. Society's demands on rangelands have shifted away from livestock production and toward services and disservices such as climate mitigation and greenhouse gas emissions. Sustaining rangelands in the United States depends on sustainability of the larger beef production system, including crop agric…
Supplying ecosystem services on US rangelands
The future of social science integration in rangelands research
Researchers have studied human dimensions of rangelands since the earliest days of US rangeland science, usually focusing only on white, male, English-speaking ranch owners. To address questions of rural prosperity and collaborative management, social scientists and the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network must turn their attention to the perspectives, practices, and experiences of indigenous, non-Anglo, female, and “new rural” rangela…
The Arid Lands: History, Power, Knowledge. Diana K. Davis; The Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland Science. Nathan F. Sayre
The Woolly West: Colorado's Hidden History of Sheepscapes
Cowboys and cattle ranching have long dominated the historiography and myths of Euro-American settlement of the West. Sheep and the people who tended them have received far less attention, even though recent scholarship suggests they were every bit as important, if not more so, especially in certain places and times. Andrew Gulliford's The Woolly West adds to this growing body of scholarship, with a specific focus on western Colorado and adjacent…
Scarcity
Scarcity is commonly associated today with shortages of food and natural resources, but its importance in the social sciences is both broader and more profound than this suggests. It emerged as a concept in the late eighteenth century, intimately connected to anxieties about the causes and consequences of high food prices amid growing poverty. Some viewed food scarcity as the result of natural events that damaged crops, while others blamed social…
The Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland Science
Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital
Power and Control in the Imperial Valley: Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900–1940
Journal Article Power and Control in the Imperial Valley: Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900–1940 Get access By Benny J. Andrés Jr. ( College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2014. xviii, 229 pp. $43.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Page 226, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw097 Published: 01 June 2016
After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California
Intervention: Critical physical geography
A recent opinion piece rekindled debate as to whether geography's current interdisciplinary make-up is a historical relic or an actual and potential source of intellectual vitality. Taking the latter position, we argue here for the benefits of sustained integration of physical and critical human geography. For reasons both political and pragmatic, we term this area of intermingled research and practice critical physical geography (CPG). CPG combi…
What can ecological science tell us about opportunities for carbon sequestration on arid rangelands in the United States
Scientific interest in carbon sequestration on rangelands is largely driven by their extent, while the interest of ranchers in the United States centers on opportunities to enhance revenue streams. Rangelands cover approximately 30% of the earth's ice-free land surface and hold an equivalent amount of the world's terrestrial carbon. Rangelands are grasslands, shrublands, and savannas and cover 312 million hectares in the United States. On the ari…
Social and Legal Effects on Monitoring and Adaptive Management: A Case Study of National Forest Grazing Allotments, 1927–2007
Monitoring is a critical component of adaptive management but often weak or missing in practice. We examined grazing allotment files to identify patterns in monitoring and management practices on the Coronado National Forest from 1927 to 2007, and conducted interviews with key informants to understand the mechanisms behind those patterns. Standardized, documented monitoring occurred on a near-annual basis on all allotments until 1978; ceased abru…
The Role of Rangelands in Diversified Farming Systems: Innovations, Obstacles, and Opportunities in the USA
Sayre, N. F., L. Carlisle, L. Huntsinger, G. Fisher, and A. Shattuck. 2012. The role of rangelands in diversified farming systems: innovations, obstacles, and opportunities in the USA. Ecology and Society 17(4): 43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04790-170443
The Politics of the Anthropogenic
The term anthropogenic takes its meaning from an implied contrast to an idealist notion of nature as separate from humans and endowed with a timeless or cyclical equilibrium. In recent decades, however, scientists have concluded that human influences now dominate nature at global and geological scales, reflected in the contention that Earth has entered a new epoch called the Anthropocene. Anthropogenic global warming is central to these developme…
Conservation Outcomes and Social Relations: A Comparative Study of Private Ranchland Conservation Easements
Conservation easements have increased dramatically but their social and ecological outcomes are largely unknown. To examine the influence of social relations and institutional structure on easement design and conservation outcomes, we compared two regions where land trusts hold conservation easements protecting large areas of private rangeland: Lassen Foothills, California, and Malpai Borderlands, Arizona and New Mexico. We conducted interviews w…
Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in Northern Mexico: Private Revolutions
A History of Land Use and Natural Resources in the Middle San Pedro River Valley, Arizona
A History of Land Use and Natural Resources in the Middle San Pedro River Valley, Arizona Nathan F. Sayre (bio) This paper reconstructs and interprets the land use and natural history of a poorly studied reach of the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona (figure 1). The paper is organized chronologically, beginning with a summary of prehistoric conditions and human activities. Greater emphasis is placed on the historic period, however, for whic…
Commentary: Scale, rent, and symbolic capital: political economy and emerging rural landscapes
The papers collected here demonstrate that rural landscapes around the world are increasingly entering into global-scale circuits of capital accumulation and circulation for purposes other than the conventional ones of raw materials, cheap labor and agricultural commodities. Although the concepts of ‘‘exurbia’’ and ‘‘amenity migration’’ remain to be further specified, it is clear that emerging rural landscapes are an important and vast field for …
Land, labor, livestock and (neo)liberalism: Understanding the geographies of pastoralism and ranching
Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre - Edited by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom and Christian Schmid
The Genesis, History, and Limits of Carrying Capacity
The concept of carrying capacity is employed in a remarkably wide range of disciplines and debates, and it has been forcefully critiqued within numerous fields. Yet its historical origins remain obscure. I identify four major types of uses of carrying capacity: (1) as a mechanical or engineered attribute of manufactured objects or systems, beginning around 1840 in the context of international shipping; (2) as an attribute of living organisms and …
Assessing the Effects of the Grundrisse in Anglophone Geography and Anthropology
Selections of the Grundrisse were translated into English beginning in 1964; a full translation did not appear until 1973. Anglophone Marxian social science has changed dramatically since then; this article attempts to assess the role of the Grundrisse in these changes, focusing specifically on anthropology and geography. In geography the effects are most apparent in the work of David Harvey, who was among the earliest Anglophone social scientist…
Introduction: The Working Landscapes Special Issue
Intervention: Critical physical geography
A recent opinion piece rekindled debate as to whether geography's current interdisciplinary make-up is a historical relic or an actual and potential source of intellectual vitality. Taking the latter position, we argue here for the benefits of sustained integration of physical and critical human geography. For reasons both political and pragmatic, we term this area of intermingled research and practice critical physical geography (CPG). CPG combi…
Ecological and geographical scale: Parallels and potential for integration
Scale has emerged as a major issue in both ecology and geography in recent decades. Little effort has been made to compare these parallel debates, however, or to seek an integrated conception of scale across the two disciplines. This paper argues that such an integration is possible, even between ecology and human geography—the subfield of geography seemingly most removed from ecological concerns and methods. In both disciplines, globalization ha…
The Politics of the Anthropogenic
The term anthropogenic takes its meaning from an implied contrast to an idealist notion of nature as separate from humans and endowed with a timeless or cyclical equilibrium. In recent decades, however, scientists have concluded that human influences now dominate nature at global and geological scales, reflected in the contention that Earth has entered a new epoch called the Anthropocene. Anthropogenic global warming is central to these developme…
The Genesis, History, and Limits of Carrying Capacity
The concept of carrying capacity is employed in a remarkably wide range of disciplines and debates, and it has been forcefully critiqued within numerous fields. Yet its historical origins remain obscure. I identify four major types of uses of carrying capacity: (1) as a mechanical or engineered attribute of manufactured objects or systems, beginning around 1840 in the context of international shipping; (2) as an attribute of living organisms and …
Commentary: Scale, rent, and symbolic capital: political economy and emerging rural landscapes
The papers collected here demonstrate that rural landscapes around the world are increasingly entering into global-scale circuits of capital accumulation and circulation for purposes other than the conventional ones of raw materials, cheap labor and agricultural commodities. Although the concepts of ‘‘exurbia’’ and ‘‘amenity migration’’ remain to be further specified, it is clear that emerging rural landscapes are an important and vast field for …
Conservation Outcomes and Social Relations: A Comparative Study of Private Ranchland Conservation Easements
Conservation easements have increased dramatically but their social and ecological outcomes are largely unknown. To examine the influence of social relations and institutional structure on easement design and conservation outcomes, we compared two regions where land trusts hold conservation easements protecting large areas of private rangeland: Lassen Foothills, California, and Malpai Borderlands, Arizona and New Mexico. We conducted interviews w…
Speaking through the Aspens: Basque Tree Carvings in California and Nevada
This text looks at the solitary Basque sheepherders who helped to create a major agricultural industry. It analyzes the content of thousands of arboglyphs in the mountains of Nevada and California by topic: language; politics; the Basque homeland; the sheepherder's life; sex; and pictorial themes
Land, labor, livestock and (neo)liberalism: Understanding the geographies of pastoralism and ranching
Assessing the Effects of the Grundrisse in Anglophone Geography and Anthropology
Selections of the Grundrisse were translated into English beginning in 1964; a full translation did not appear until 1973. Anglophone Marxian social science has changed dramatically since then; this article attempts to assess the role of the Grundrisse in these changes, focusing specifically on anthropology and geography. In geography the effects are most apparent in the work of David Harvey, who was among the earliest Anglophone social scientist…
What can ecological science tell us about opportunities for carbon sequestration on arid rangelands in the United States
Scientific interest in carbon sequestration on rangelands is largely driven by their extent, while the interest of ranchers in the United States centers on opportunities to enhance revenue streams. Rangelands cover approximately 30% of the earth's ice-free land surface and hold an equivalent amount of the world's terrestrial carbon. Rangelands are grasslands, shrublands, and savannas and cover 312 million hectares in the United States. On the ari…
Corn and the range: Rethinking Ranching, Agriculture and the Feedlot
Debates about modern beef production suffer from a major historical blind spot. For over a century, the feedlot relied on a closed nutrient loop to sustain soil fertility in the United States Corn Belt. Driven by industrial capitalist urbanization, a cattle-grain-beef complex shaped land use, tenure systems, management practices and environmental politics on the expanding frontier, sacrificing the tall-grass prairies and fracturing agrarian resis…
The Woolly West: Colorado's Hidden History of Sheepscapes
Cowboys and cattle ranching have long dominated the historiography and myths of Euro-American settlement of the West. Sheep and the people who tended them have received far less attention, even though recent scholarship suggests they were every bit as important, if not more so, especially in certain places and times. Andrew Gulliford's The Woolly West adds to this growing body of scholarship, with a specific focus on western Colorado and adjacent…
Transformations of the Chihuahuan Borderlands: Grazing, fragmentation, and biodiversity conservation in desert grasslands
Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital
Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in Northern Mexico: Private Revolutions
A History of Land Use and Natural Resources in the Middle San Pedro River Valley, Arizona
A History of Land Use and Natural Resources in the Middle San Pedro River Valley, Arizona Nathan F. Sayre (bio) This paper reconstructs and interprets the land use and natural history of a poorly studied reach of the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona (figure 1). The paper is organized chronologically, beginning with a summary of prehistoric conditions and human activities. Greater emphasis is placed on the historic period, however, for whic…
Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre - Edited by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom and Christian Schmid
Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication
Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication. ROY ELLEN and KATSUYOSHI FUKUI, eds. Oxford: Berg, 1996. xxii + 664 pp., figures, tables, notes, bibliography, contributors, index
Speaking through the Aspens: Basque Tree Carvings in California and Nevada
This text looks at the solitary Basque sheepherders who helped to create a major agricultural industry. It analyzes the content of thousands of arboglyphs in the mountains of Nevada and California by topic: language; politics; the Basque homeland; the sheepherder's life; sex; and pictorial themes
Spaces of Hope
Spaces of Hope. David Harvey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. viii. 293 pp., appendix, bibliography, index
Transformations of the Chihuahuan Borderlands: Grazing, fragmentation, and biodiversity conservation in desert grasslands
Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital
Journal Article Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital Get access Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital. By Sayre Nathan F.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. xxvi + 278 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $48.00.) Michael F. Logan Michael F. Logan Oklahoma State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Ecological and geographical scale: Parallels and potential for integration
Scale has emerged as a major issue in both ecology and geography in recent decades. Little effort has been made to compare these parallel debates, however, or to seek an integrated conception of scale across the two disciplines. This paper argues that such an integration is possible, even between ecology and human geography—the subfield of geography seemingly most removed from ecological concerns and methods. In both disciplines, globalization ha…
Culture and Agriculture
Scott Prudham's Knock on Wood: Nature as Commodity in Douglas‐Fir Country
Introduction: The Working Landscapes Special Issue
The Genesis, History, and Limits of Carrying Capacity
The concept of carrying capacity is employed in a remarkably wide range of disciplines and debates, and it has been forcefully critiqued within numerous fields. Yet its historical origins remain obscure. I identify four major types of uses of carrying capacity: (1) as a mechanical or engineered attribute of manufactured objects or systems, beginning around 1840 in the context of international shipping; (2) as an attribute of living organisms and …
Assessing the Effects of the Grundrisse in Anglophone Geography and Anthropology
Selections of the Grundrisse were translated into English beginning in 1964; a full translation did not appear until 1973. Anglophone Marxian social science has changed dramatically since then; this article attempts to assess the role of the Grundrisse in these changes, focusing specifically on anthropology and geography. In geography the effects are most apparent in the work of David Harvey, who was among the earliest Anglophone social scientist…
Commentary: Scale, rent, and symbolic capital: political economy and emerging rural landscapes
The papers collected here demonstrate that rural landscapes around the world are increasingly entering into global-scale circuits of capital accumulation and circulation for purposes other than the conventional ones of raw materials, cheap labor and agricultural commodities. Although the concepts of ‘‘exurbia’’ and ‘‘amenity migration’’ remain to be further specified, it is clear that emerging rural landscapes are an important and vast field for …
Land, labor, livestock and (neo)liberalism: Understanding the geographies of pastoralism and ranching
Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre - Edited by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom and Christian Schmid
Conservation Outcomes and Social Relations: A Comparative Study of Private Ranchland Conservation Easements
Conservation easements have increased dramatically but their social and ecological outcomes are largely unknown. To examine the influence of social relations and institutional structure on easement design and conservation outcomes, we compared two regions where land trusts hold conservation easements protecting large areas of private rangeland: Lassen Foothills, California, and Malpai Borderlands, Arizona and New Mexico. We conducted interviews w…
Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in Northern Mexico: Private Revolutions
A History of Land Use and Natural Resources in the Middle San Pedro River Valley, Arizona
A History of Land Use and Natural Resources in the Middle San Pedro River Valley, Arizona Nathan F. Sayre (bio) This paper reconstructs and interprets the land use and natural history of a poorly studied reach of the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona (figure 1). The paper is organized chronologically, beginning with a summary of prehistoric conditions and human activities. Greater emphasis is placed on the historic period, however, for whic…
What can ecological science tell us about opportunities for carbon sequestration on arid rangelands in the United States
Scientific interest in carbon sequestration on rangelands is largely driven by their extent, while the interest of ranchers in the United States centers on opportunities to enhance revenue streams. Rangelands cover approximately 30% of the earth's ice-free land surface and hold an equivalent amount of the world's terrestrial carbon. Rangelands are grasslands, shrublands, and savannas and cover 312 million hectares in the United States. On the ari…
Social and Legal Effects on Monitoring and Adaptive Management: A Case Study of National Forest Grazing Allotments, 1927–2007
Monitoring is a critical component of adaptive management but often weak or missing in practice. We examined grazing allotment files to identify patterns in monitoring and management practices on the Coronado National Forest from 1927 to 2007, and conducted interviews with key informants to understand the mechanisms behind those patterns. Standardized, documented monitoring occurred on a near-annual basis on all allotments until 1978; ceased abru…
The Role of Rangelands in Diversified Farming Systems: Innovations, Obstacles, and Opportunities in the USA
Sayre, N. F., L. Carlisle, L. Huntsinger, G. Fisher, and A. Shattuck. 2012. The role of rangelands in diversified farming systems: innovations, obstacles, and opportunities in the USA. Ecology and Society 17(4): 43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04790-170443
The Politics of the Anthropogenic
The term anthropogenic takes its meaning from an implied contrast to an idealist notion of nature as separate from humans and endowed with a timeless or cyclical equilibrium. In recent decades, however, scientists have concluded that human influences now dominate nature at global and geological scales, reflected in the contention that Earth has entered a new epoch called the Anthropocene. Anthropogenic global warming is central to these developme…
Intervention: Critical physical geography
A recent opinion piece rekindled debate as to whether geography's current interdisciplinary make-up is a historical relic or an actual and potential source of intellectual vitality. Taking the latter position, we argue here for the benefits of sustained integration of physical and critical human geography. For reasons both political and pragmatic, we term this area of intermingled research and practice critical physical geography (CPG). CPG combi…
After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California
The Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland Science
Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital
Geography (23 works) · Ecology (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Biology (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Agroforestry (8 works) · Environmental resource management (8 works) · Environmental Science (8 works)